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“Embarrassing” Was the Word, and a Stadium Worker Said It to Dak Prescott’s Face
“Embarrassing” Was the Word, and a Stadium Worker Said It to Dak Prescott’s Face Dak Prescott was already walking toward the locker room when he heard it. The Cowboys had just lost 24-16 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at home, in prime time, to a team that walked in 0-4 with an undrafted rookie quarterback…
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SpaceX Just Took Aim at Your Phone Carrier, and Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile Are Getting Crushed
Picture this. You wake up Friday morning, check your phone bill, and nothing looks different. But on Wall Street, the companies that send you that bill are having the worst day they have had in years. Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile are all tumbling, Deutsche Telekom is having its worst trading day in more than three…
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Ben Affleck’s Animals Is Out on Netflix Today, and Critics Can’t Agree on Anything
Here is a weird sentence to type on a Friday morning: Ben Affleck directed a kidnapping thriller, cast himself as a Los Angeles mayoral candidate, and released it on Netflix today. The reviews came in yesterday, and they read like critics watched four different movies. One calls it richly rewarding. Another calls it a misguided…
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He Was Shot by ICE With a 5-Year-Old in the Back Seat. Now All of New York Is in the Streets.
He Was Shot by ICE With a 5-Year-Old in the Back Seat. Now All of New York Is in the Streets. The shooting happened at about 4:20 in the afternoon on Marble Hill Avenue in the Bronx, and the details have only gotten uglier since. Federal agents surrounded a car, tried to arrest the man…
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The Social Reckoning Is Out Today, and It’s Starting the Fight of the Fall Movie Season
This morning, the most Googled movie in America was not a superhero sequel or a horror reboot. It was The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to The Social Network, which opens in theaters today, October 9, 2026. Sixteen years after the original turned Facebook’s origin story into an Oscar winner, Sorkin is back with a…
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Eight Wins From Immortality: The Dodgers Are Chasing a Three-Peat Nobody in the NL Has Ever Touched
Eight Wins From Immortality: The Dodgers Are Chasing a Three-Peat Nobody in the NL Has Ever Touched A year ago, Andy Pages could not buy a hit in October. He finished last season’s World Series run 4-for-51, and in the first two games of this year’s NLDS he looked lost again, striking out so often…
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Seven Fake Journalists, 100 Fake Stories: How Iran Turned AI Into a Newsroom
Seven Fake Journalists, 100 Fake Stories: How Iran Turned AI Into a Newsroom Somewhere in Iran, someone opened ChatGPT, typed in Farsi, and asked it to help write an American news article. Not one article. About a hundred of them, over more than a year, placed under seven fake bylines in real publications that real…
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Bill Clinton Picked Up His Sax Again, and the Reason Made Millions Emotional
Bill Clinton Picked Up His Sax Again, and the Reason Made Millions Emotional Some videos go viral because they are funny. Some go viral because they are shocking. And then there is the one Bill Clinton posted this week, which went viral for a reason the internet rarely gets to feel anymore: it was just…
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Mortgage Rates Just Hit 7.4 Percent. Here’s Why Some Buyers Are Smiling Anyway
Mortgage Rates Just Hit 7.4 Percent. Here’s Why Some Buyers Are Smiling Anyway If you have been watching mortgage rates the way you watch a horror movie, through your fingers, this week gave you another scare. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage climbed to 7.4 percent for the week ending October 8, according…
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OpenAI’s $20 Billion Vanishing Act, and the Afternoon Wall Street Panicked
OpenAI’s $20 Billion Vanishing Act, and the Afternoon Wall Street Panicked Thursday afternoon started like any other trading day, and then a single number from the most important private company on Earth knocked the legs out of the market. The Nasdaq fell 1.4%. The S&P 500 dropped 0.7%. The Dow dipped. Billions of dollars of…
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One Fan’s Hands Just Changed October: How the Rays Swept the Yankees in a 4-3 Game 3
Anthony Volpe had already rounded the bases. He had already slapped the high-fives in the dugout. Forty-seven thousand people inside Yankee Stadium were on their feet, convinced the Yankees had just tied Game 3 of the ALDS. And then the umpires put on the headsets, and one fan’s hands became the biggest story of October.…
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Broadcom Wants $50 Billion of Wall Street’s Money for OpenAI’s Chips. The Market Is Starting to Sweat.
There is a moment in every boom when the conversation shifts from “how fast can we grow” to “who exactly is paying for all of this.” Wall Street may have just had that moment, and it arrived courtesy of a chipmaker, a Wall Street Journal exclusive, and a number so large it broke the brain’s…
